Burning Passion

CHAPTER 125: SEARCHING for NIKKI (Four)

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"Dylan, stop makes us nervous!"

"All right! As to playback the footage outside the Laundry Room. Next to it is the area where to receive deliveries for the hotel. A truck arrived the moment Kevin Hale checked in into the hotel. They were delivering new mattresses and pillows."

"Could it be?" Matt mumbles.

"Matt, playback, and focus on that person." Theo pointed out a person on the screen. Matt quickly playback the footage and zooms in the video.

"This is?" Matt meets Theo's gaze. They have an idea who it was, but the guy is somewhat in disguise.

"Brandon Hale!"

"Hold on. I will run a scan and match identities." Rudolf worked on his computer. After a mere two minutes, it has the results. "Confirmed. It was Brandon Hale."

"Damn it! He's here, and he got Nikki!" Theo clenches both of his fists. Frustration displays on his face.

"I'll be damn. It seems it was well planned. They are using the mattresses to cover the CC TVs to hide some activities." Dylan's thoughts.

"So, Nikki possibly hid in that pushcart, but where is it now? Could it be?" Theo ponders. He realized something is missing out. He rushed outside and ran to the elevator. He holds the button after he notices Matt follows him.

"Shit! We didn't check if the pushcart was still there!" Matt blurted.

"I want to see that area. How do they take Nikki without being caught by the cameras? And the securities?"

"Someone plans out from inside. But I don't think they planned this in a long time. It was an on-the-spot plan, but they succeeded! Damn it!"

"They were familiar with the hotel. Things that came and went. The woman who speaks to Nikki must be the one who gives information." Theo's presumption.

"That's for sure. In the records, she already was here before Nikki started working in the hotel which was just unexpected. So, they didn't know each other in the beginning. But Brandon Hale came back to the country, then this!"

"So, possibly, she was just used for the plan?" asked Theo.

"To look at the situation, that's my theory, yes. Presumably, she is Senator Lu's eyes or whatsoever, to begin with, and they can use her for anything they want from us. We need all her data and the status of her family. What does she do for a living, and why could she afford such a lifestyle and then suddenly come into the hotel?"

Theo and Matt arrived at the ground floor. With hasty, they headed to the Laundry Room and then to the Receiving Area for deliveries after. However, they failed to find the pushcart. It was gone.

"Damn it! Why does no one notice from the Security?" asked Matt.

"I'm in a meeting with the Security chiefs and those assigned in the area that time," response from Daichi. He is now questioning the Senior Security, but no one finds any suspicious people. "They work professionally."

"Shit! This family successfully slipped away once again like three years ago that compromised the mission. Now they freely walk into our territory! I won't rest until I have not put these bastards behind bars!" Matt stressed.

"Matt, I have the report," Dylan began. "The Vice President of that company is Kevin Hale's classmate during college in the US."

"Meaning, Kevin Hale demanded this person to use the resources to pass our security, and Brandon Hale got into the hotel pretending as a delivery man?"

"Yes. The company and the hotel have been collaborating for years since before brother Shun takes over the corporation. It has a great relationship with business associates. Therefore, no one would suspect them. Kevin Hale outsmarted us again with this effort."

"And they take Nikki through the back door of the Laundry Area, is it?"

"That woman probably is not working alone inside."

"Who could she possibly work with? Daichi assigns someone to check if she talked these passing days." Shun ordered.

"Copy," Daichi responds.

Keep a silence, Theo decided later on. "I will go to that company and check if Nikki was there!" he announces, rushing to the parking lot. He headed to his car.

"Theo, relax. I'll go with you. David, send your SWAT team to the warehouse." Matt's requests from his brother.

"Understood. I will gather my team. I'm going as well."

"Kevin Hale is on the move!" Rudolf reported.

"Someone follows and keeps an eye on him," Shun mandated.

"I will notify the lookout," David responded.

"Daichi, call the MA Sect 14 and Sect 13," Shun ordered further.

"You want them?" Daichi stunned by this boss' move. He wanted to assure if he was serious.

"We have recent members. Let this be like training for them," Shun's reasons. "I want this case to solve as soon as possible." He started firmly. He won't wait another year to pass, and nothing happens. They have involved more innocent people.

Lost for seconds, Daichi answered. "All right. I will call Riley."

"Go ahead."

Daichi dialed his wife's mobile number. Riley is from Mafia Alliance Section 15, at the same time, overseer of female training agents under Section 14.

"Hello, honey. The emperor has ordered. Send the recent members from Section 13 and Section 14 for the search of Nikki and Aunt Lucy," Daichi informed his wife.

On the other line, Riley sat up from the sofa. "What? Someone kidnapped them?"

"Aunt Lucy and her nurse disappear from their home. Now we investigate why Nikki also vanished in the hotel without a trace."

"But Nikki is pregnant!" Oops, it slipped out from under her tongue. In which she hides the truth from her husband. They promised not to hide anything or lie from each other, but she did it this time. Riley is biting her lower lip.

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Hello, dearest!

Before I proceed to the story, allow me to make this late Introduction. To understand more in some parts of this story, let me introduce the other characters that you will read the names of often or sometimes here, which is (especially if you have the plan to read my other novel in the future… hehe… by the way, more men in their circle but I won't include them yet).

I want to write a novel with a focus in Romance, so I less mention anything related to action scenes. But, allow me to explain a little as well about this Mafia Alliance. It was only mentioned in my other novel, but as now we are in a part of Action scenes, I'll introduce them.

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In the past, Mafia organizations in every country and even local gangsters have been fighting for power. It means illegal activities have been running everywhere.

And behind the heated competition, even among the High Society families and Government Officials, the Mafia Alliance slowly suppressed the illegal business in the Underground World.

Given a task by his uncle, Shun Crow has an important mission in Mainland City.

It's been 5 years since he took over the city. Cleaning the country means enemies everywhere. But three years ago, he dealt with personal matters in Paris (My Stubborn Mistress novel). The reason he wasn't present at that time.

Assigning the best agents from the Mafia Alliance still compromised some part of the mission… (The entire story will be detailed in the future in — "That Mysterious Guy" novel and…)

But thanks to Jean Soberano (I Have A Lover: My Lovable Lawyer novel), she becomes a witness against the International Human Trafficking case, most of the Organization partners apprehended and put to jail. But the Head of the Organization escapes which they have no solid evidence to file a case against them.

Moving on…

Mafia Alliance members are representing each country by a powerful family that has the support of its government called THE PILLARS (detailed at MSM novel).

Under them are groups called SECTION. It depends on the position and status each member will assign to these SECTIONS.

Mafia Alliance agents are not just ordinary people. They're known as actors and actresses. They were top models and top singers around the world under the YOUNG ENTERTAINMENT AGENCY, an Asian Entertainment Company. But most of all, the High Society families that qualified to be a member of the Mafia Alliance. There are rules to follow, and Theo is a member under SECTION 13, or something called them MAS-13.

"MAFIA ALLIANCE — SECTION"

At 15 years old, Mafia members sent their children to ITALY and trained to learn self-defense and so on to fight. Some pursue being an agent after reaching a certain age, like Deana Reynolds, the Wine Heiress from Switzerland. She's a top model once in Asia, at the same time, she is working as a secret agent even after she quit the entertainment and became a full-time Author like her favorite author and friend, Cassidy Connor.

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Important Characters: (showing in every novel)

SHUN CROW — the Emperor/Boss/Brother/Friend/Doting

DAICHI ISAGAWA — the Right Hand/Gangster Boss/Everyone's Brother/the-Nosy-and-Noisy/Doting

RUDOLF LAO — the Computer Nerd/Hacker/Satellite System Developer/etc.../Relationship-In-Progress

KIER LAWRENCE — the Lawyer/Bad Temper/Clean Freak/Kill Joy/Doting

MATT LAWRENCE — the AGENT/the Best-Side-Character in Every Novel/Every CEO's Errand- Man/Know Every Male Leads Secret/He's The Man But No To Marriage/Don't Like Wifezilla

DAVID LAWRENCE — the OFFICER/SWAT Leader/Sweet Brother/Doting

DYLAN LAWRENCE — the ASTRONAUT/Hacker/ATHENA-the-Satellite-Operator/Stable Relationship

BEN RYAN — the Doctor/Everyone's Brother/Nosy and Noisy/Relationship-In-Chase

MARK LAO — the Junior Computer Nerd/Hacker… etc/Nosy and Noisy/the Youngest/Can not Wait To Get Married

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Thank You for reading!

— Elise Elleneth